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The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that clinicians not use any liquid docusate sodium product as a stool softener or for any other medical purpose, the FDA announced Saturday. PharmaTech LLC has voluntarily recalled all non-expired lots of…
The AHA Board of Trustees has selected as its chair-elect designate Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA. She will assume the AHA chairmanship in 2018. Agee is a member of the AHA’s Executive and Operations committees, and a past member of the AHA’s…
Strong leadership, a culture that fosters continuous improvements in care and innovations that hold the promise of transforming clinical training and enhancing patient safety have earned Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., the 2016 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.The AHA July 17…
The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to revise its draft compounding guidance to allow hospital and health system pharmacies to continue to distribute compounded drug products to other health care facilities in the same system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the data submission deadline for the fiscal year 2017 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program measures and for the first-quarter 2016 Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program elective delivery measure due…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today reported the first case of female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika virus, in which a New York woman apparently transmitted the virus to a male sexual partner after returning from an area with active Zika transmission.
A new guide from the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative highlights how research can increase the impact of the community health needs assessment process, and where and how research practices can be used. “Community health needs assessments continue to be developed…
The Senate last night voted 92-2 to approve the conference report to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), legislation designed to help stem the epidemic of opioid abuse through education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
The House Appropriations Committee today approved legislation that would provide $161.6 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017. The bill would provide $73.2 billion for HHS programs, an…
Forty-six governors have agreed to take additional actions to fight opioid addiction, the National Governors Association announced yesterday.